COUNCIL BY-ELECTIONS 26.03.26

It was two Tory defences and one each for Labour and the Lib Dems in Thursday's four contests.  We predicted a trio of gains for Reform, but in actual fact it was the Conservatives who emerged with three seats.  However, on closer inspection the results were not exactly inspiring for Kemi Badenoch.  Her party's share of the vote plummeted by around 20 percentage points in all but one of the four seats, mustering a meagre 2.5 per cent increase to take a Lib Dem seat in Oxfordshire.

That seat in the Vale of White Horse was a hard one to call, but we predicted that Reform's presence would eat into the Tory vote enough to hand them a sensational gain in an overwhelmingly middle class battleground.  In fact, what happened was Reform took a significant swing from the Lib Dems and helped deliver the seat to the Conservatives.  This marked a return for the Tories to a council that has been dominated by Lib Dems and Greens in recent years.  Perhaps we should now keep an eye out for the Vale of White Horse's solitary Tory councillor, judging by Lee Evans' sinister number of votes!

In Sevenoaks, Kent, we thought Reform would decide that seat as well - potentially gifting it to the Lib Dems, but more likely winning it outright.  Instead, the Lib Dem vote went down and Reform took second place as the Tories held on, despite dropping more than 20 percentage points.

Having wrongly predicted two Reform gains, we finally hit some form in the two Lincolnshire seats.  The two vacancies had arisen through the deaths of long-standing Lab-Con incumbents.  In Axholme Central ward, we correctly forecast a Conservative hold, while in Brumby we felt that Reform may have too much for Labour.  Labour's vote there collapsed by more than 33 per cent, allowing Reform to storm ahead from scratch with more than half of the vote.

Labour's vote also collapsed in the other Lincolnshire seat, by more than 25 per cent, and they finished last in the Vale of White Horse with just 13 votes.  The Greens didn't exactly set the results on fire, mustering a couple of third places and collecting the wooden spoon in Kent.

Brumby, North Lincolnshire Council

Ref: 769 (52.3%) New

Lab: 410 (27.9%) -33.6%

Grn: 133 (9.1%) +4.2%

Con: 110 (7.5%) -21.9%

LDm: 37 (3.2%) -1.1%

Ref GAIN from Lab

Axholme Central, North Lincolnshire Council

Con: 928 (49.2%) -19.6%

Ref: 668 (35.5%) New

Grn: 157 (8.3%) New

Lab: 103 (5.5%) -25.7%

LDm: 28 (1.5%) New

Con HOLD

Halstead, Knockholt & Badgers Mount, Sevenoaks District Council

Con: 561 (44.2%) -20.7%

Ref: 378 (29.8%) New

LDm: 266 (20.9%) -14.2%

Grn: 58 (5.1%) New

Con HOLD

Stanford, Vale of White Horse District Council

Con: 666 (45.9%) +2.5%

LDm: 395 (27.2%) -17.0%

Ref: 261 (18.0%) New

Grn: 115 (7.9%) -4.5%

Lab: 13 (1.0%) New

Con GAIN from LDm

WOKE WEDNESDAYS #51

Hardly any big film or TV franchise seems safe from the scourge of hard left social engineering.  Activists appear to have taken over Hollywood and the entertainment industry, dictating that DEI must now be ingrained in any project lest it be barred from awards consideration.  How ironic that the biggest loudmouth adherents of this poison cry 'fascism' in their persistent verbal assaults on the Trump administration.  Yes, Mark Ruffalo and comrades, if woke messenging is now mandatory viewing for punters who simply long to be entertained - then you are not quite the freedom loving liberals you appear to present yourselves as.  Quite the opposite.

With the woke destruction of beloved long-running sci-fi staples as Doctor Who and Star Wars, it is no great surprise to see Star Trek also being dragged into the gutter and along the same path of debauched demise.  The latest series - Star Trek: Starfleet Academy - has dialled up the woke to eleven, epitomised by a Klingon character who is biologically male, but wears a skirt or a dress in multiple scenes and forms a relationship with a male human character.  The show is led by a female captain played by Holly Hunter, whose behaviour would certainly raise the eyebrows of past captains such as Kirk and Picard.  The diverse cast includes gays, lesbians and not content with a multi-racial array of actors, some of the characters themselves are 'mixed race' ie. half Klingon- half Tellarite, half human-half Lanthanite and so on.

As with previous propaganda pieces such as Star Wars: The Acolyte and various Marvel Studios tv shows, the critics lapped up the slop.  However, the people who have actually invested in these franchises for the best part of a life time - the fans - have reacted somewhat differently.

Unsurprisingly, Starfleet Academy was dead on arrival.  A second series had been filmed back-to-back with the first, but it will be the last to air.  Once again, the lofty views of woke critics cannot save a production from cancellation - it's bums on seats and financial returns that maintain franchises.  This repeated cycle of woke and broke really is the epitome of idiocy - doing the same thing over and over again, in the hope of a different result, but failing every single time.

When will the people who own these studios revert back to entertaining their audience, instead of indoctrinating them and/or ripping into them when they voice their disapproval?  How much more money can these studios afford to lose?

The last Woke Wednesday - Christmas free trees in Tesco - generated 24 comments and 19 shares on Facebook.

TOON TUESDAY #96

The war on Iran and its consequences dominated last week's toons, with some artists bringing Angela Rayner's insurgency into the equation.  Rayner reportedly delivered a damning speech to Labour activists in a Westminster boozer last week, albeit she did not actually name the dear leader she was obliterating.  The following quote appears to suggest she is very much gearing up for a leadership challenge after May's looming electoral disaster:  "The very survival of the Labour party is at stake.  As a party and a movement we cannot hide, we cannot go through the motions in the face of decline.  We are running out of time."

Downing Street refused to comment.

Are we ready for Rayner?  God help us...

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CAP SCRAP BENEFITS SHIRKERS

From April 6, the two child benefit cap implemented in 2017 is officially toast.  Labour are very proud of this 'achievement', which will cost taxpayers billions in the long term.

A mock newspaper headline designed by London Labour activist Aline Delawa (wife of Labour peer Lord Evans) celebrates Labour's abolition of the cap and has been shared online by the party and some of its MPs.  Deputy leader Lucy Powell was among those sharing it on X (see below).

If you look closely at the image used beneath the headline, you may notice that the faces of the children are all black or mixed race.  It is not clear if this is intentional, but what we do know is that by the end of last year 1.3 million claimants of universal credit were foreign nationals and more than 10 per cent of claimants are of Asian descent, primarily Pakistani and Bangladeshi.  Over a third of Pakistanis and Bangladeshis are currently unemployed and 'not seeking work', rising to almost half for women.  In 2022 just 61 per cent were employed, the lowest of any ethnic group in the UK.  It is surely no coincidence that these groups have significantly more children than native ethnic groups, and also present a powerful voting block for the Labour party.

Labour have basically scrapped the benefit cap to curry favour with Muslim voters and as a consequence accelerate the demographic change that will soon make the native peoples of these islands minorities in our own homeland.  This push to marginalise and ultimately eradicate ethnic Europeans is tied into the globalist agenda for world domination and subjugation, while at the same time ensuring leftist parties such as Labour (or the Greens) maintain power.

Our thoughts on this issue remain steadfast - if you can't afford to have multiple children, it is not the role of the state to state to support you.  No matter what colour you are.

MEME MONDAY #75

Last week was very much oriented towards Islam, thanks to a social media post from unexpected quarters.  It did not come from Reform or Restore or Tommy Robinstein - it was from the front bench of the blue wing of the Uniparty.  Nick Timothy, a Suffolk MP elected in 2024, lambasted the mass prayer event in Trafalgar Square and - equally surprising - his party leader resisted calls from Chairman Starmer and co to sack him.

Times they are a changing...

Mon 16 Mar - 20 shares.  Sometimes Karl is just very silly

Mon 16 Mar - 12 shares

Tue 17 Mar - 22 shares.  The wee Slavic beggar was back in town

Wed 18 Mar - 45 shares

Thu 19 Mar - 92 shares

Fri 20 Mar - 489 shares.  It never ceases to amaze how so many of the same
people who have spent years condemning the war on Iraq, have swung so
vociferously in support of the war on Iran.  Some of the comments on this
post were nothing short of retarded

Fri 20 Mar - 53 shares

Sat 21 Mar - 624 shares.  Good riddance, Marty

Sat 21 Mar - 41 shares

Sun 22 Mar - 79 shares

Six Facebook Stories were published throughout the week, including a new alternative design for the 'Diversity is Strength' series...

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TOMINEY SKEWERS REED

Labour and their media chums have really tried to drag out Nick Timothy's remarks on the Islamist takeover of Trafalgar Square, as if he had said something that would horrify the masses.  Thanks to the stunning shift to the right this country is currently undergoing, the MP is not only still on Kemi Badenoch's front bench, but he has doubled down on social media and in newspaper columns.  There has been no quivering apology or backtracking from the Shadow Justice Secretary.  Bravo, sir.

Through the rise of free speech platforms and the establishment of right-leaning broadcasters, the establishment is more exposed than ever to public ridicule.  Step forward, Steve Reed.  The Housing Secretary and London MP has heaped praise on the Muslim community in recent weeks, while calling for the head of Nick Timothy.  However, Camilla Tominey was having none of it when she spoke to Reed on her GB News show yesterday.

The poker-faced presenter delivered a series of awkward questions to Reed, who began in animated fashion as he tried to accuse Timothy of 'singling out Muslims' and being 'racist'.  Deliberately missing the point, Reed omits to mention that Timothy's now infamous X post specifically refers to the Adhan prayer, which exerts Islamic dominance over all other faiths.  Adherents of other faiths don't appear to share the desperation for mass public displays of domination, with a tiny gathering of Hindus outside Downing Street at Rishi Sunak's invitation hardly comparable.

As for that establishment buzz word to silence opponents, the accusation of 'racism' is wearing thin and when applied to Muslims is laughably inaccurate.  What 'race' are Muslims then, Mr Reed?

Tominey goes on to skewer Reed over the segregation of women at the Trafalgar Square event, before delivering a final retort about Zack Polanski running Labour's front bench.

Watch the clip below (two minute watch)

A perfectly timed attack on London's Jewish community over the weekend also drew attention to the hypocrisy of the likes of Starmer, Streeting, Reed and Polanski.  They all revelled in Iftar events recently, flooding their social media with glowing posts praising Islam.  They all support the ongoing colonisation and replacement of the native peoples of this island.

And with straight faces, they all poured their hearts out over the attack on the Jewish ambulances, which was almost certainly carried out by Islamists - either Shia or Sunni, it is not yet clear.  It's like throwing a fox into a henhouse and then decrying the fact it has slaughtered all the poultry therein.

Diversity is not strength, it is importing conflicts from around the world and destroying the very fabric of this nation.

BOATWATCH #51

There were twice as many Channel crossings last week, but despite the spring sunshine boat capacity was actually down.  Overall numbers for the year remain fairly high, with only 2025 out in front at this point.

Total = 570 (up 186 from previous week)

KHAN'S EU MEMBERSHIP DRIVE

Sadiq Khan has revisited one of his favourite gripes this week - the quest to drag Britain back into the European Union.  Interviewed by a reporter from Italian left-wing rag La Repubblica, Khan claimed that he witnessed 'every day' the harms done to London and Londoners 'economically, socially and culturally'.  Cultural harm?  What on earth is he talking about?

Khan goes on to make a dubious and wholly unproven claim about Brexit having cost the UK economy 'ten per cent', which has grown from previous estimates ranging from 5-8 per cent.  At no point during the interview does he mention the Covid-19 shitshow, which happened to almost coincide with Britain's exit from the EU (the first lockdown came just seven weeks later).  Has there ever been a bigger act of self harm to Britain's economy than the decision to trash our own economy, creating a cost of lockdown crisis that is still making Brits poorer today?

Where the EU is concerned, Khan does not pull any punches.  He wants us back in the customs union and single market 'this Parliament' and suggests that Labour should fight the next election on full EU membership, which by having rejoined its main institutions we will have already effectively rejoined prior to that election.

Khan somehow goes on to bring President Trump into the equation (he just can't help himself).  However, the first thing he mentions - tariffs - actually benefits the UK being independent of the EU.  When Trump imposed his tariffs last year, he gave Britain a favourable baseline of ten per cent, as opposed to the 15 per cent he dished out to the EU.  Whereas the EU faced 50 per cent tariffs on steel and aluminium, Britain negotiated a significantly reduced figure of 25 per cent - the lowest in the world.  If we had been a fully fledged EU member state, as Khan desperately wants, we would have been lumbered with those eminently more costly EU tariffs.

He does make some valid points about the war on Iran, not least its exacerbation of an already painful cost of living for average Brits.

Watch the clip below (five minute watch)

Note his repeated reference to 'Londoners' leaving the city due to Brexit, which 'breaks his heart'.  He emphasises the word 'Londoners', but then states in the next breath that they are actually EU nationals.  So, not Londoners then!  Where are they going Sadiq?  That's right, they're going home to mainland Europe, from whence they came.  This ties into Khan's enthusiasm for abolishing borders and nations, by making anyone and everyone the same.  If anyone can be a 'Londoner', simply by sailing into the Channel or driving under it and then rocking up in our nation's capital, then Londoners have no identity.  The same can be said for Britons and attempts to name anyone and everyone English or Scots or Welsh, despite the fact our native peoples are precisely that - distinct ethnic European groups that are native to these islands.

People that have no identity, culture or history are easier to placate and enslave into the globalist agenda driven by people like Khan.

COUNCIL BY-ELECTIONS 17.03.26

This week is unusual on two fronts.  Firstly, we have a by-election on a Tuesday and secondly, we have no by-elections taking place on Thursday.

Therefore, the solitary contest this week has already been decided, with Reform coming from nowhere to win a seat vacated by a deceased independent.  Both the seat and the county council are very much independent-orientated, with Pembrokeshire having been run by a coalition of independents ever since the authority was established in 1996.  We saw this as another easy win for one of the independent candidates, but almost half of the turnout in this overwhelmingly white working class ward backed Reform and the Conservatives.  Green supporters should look away, and as for Labour...

Milford Hakin, Pembrokshire County Council

Ref: 179 (27.1%) New

Con: 144 (21.8%) +0.5%

Ind: 106 (16.0%) New

Grn: 85 (12.9%) New

LDm: 57 (8.6%) New

Ind: 52 (7.9%) -22.1%

Lab: 27 (4.1%) New

Ind: 11 (1.7%) New

Ref GAIN from Ind

HOLYROOD REJECTS MURDER BILL

MSPs have dealt another blow to hopes of getting so-called 'assisted dying' (legalised murder) on the statute books in the UK.  Lib Dem MSP Liam McArthur had tabled the bill, which looked set to deliver a victory for the death cult following its passage through first reading last year.  However, twelve MSPs who had previously voted in favour, switched their votes on Tuesday's night.  Their decision was crucial in killing off the bill, swinging the vote by 69 votes to 57.

There were splits in all three main parties, with more than a third of SNP members voting against and a majority of Tory and Labour members also against.  Even the Lib Dems did not present a united front, despite the bill being proposed by one of their own.  One SNP member abstained, while there was no vote from Labour's Colin Smyth, who is currently suspended from both his party and the parliament building following several criminal charges relating to child pornography and his allegedly installing a secret camera in one of Holyrood's toilets.

Interesting to note that a clear majority of Labour MSPs rejected the bill, while their counterparts south of the border backed a similar bill by 224-160 (support for which outrageously included 13 Scottish MPs, despite the fact the legislation would only apply to England and Wales).  There was more consistency from the Conservatives who opposed the bills both north and south.

This was the third attempt to get 'assisted dying' through the Scottish Parliament since devolution began in 1999, but the first time it has cleared the first stage.  A similar bill that cleared the House of Commons is likely to be filibustered to death in the House of Lords, meaning that the UK maintains some independence from the aims of the globalist death cult.

Unfortunately, two British territories have recently approved the euthanasia of sick human beings.  Jersey and the Isle of Man could begin executing people next year, although there appear to be safeguards to prevent non-residents travelling from the mainland to take advantage of the legislation.

If such laws are allowed to gain a foothold here, it will open the door to a dystopian future in which euthanasia is a widely available lifestyle choice.  The situation in Canada is a prime example of the direction of travel.  'Assisted dying' was first introduced in Canada in 2016, but its scope has been widened multiple times to the point that one in 20 deaths in Canada are now state-sanctioned executions of human beings.  A further attempt to widen the law to include the mentally ill is currently tied up in court proceedings.

It is no coincidence that attempts to impose euthanasia laws on states and territories across the world are gaining pace and in many cases happening simultaneously (as in the various jurisdictions around the UK and Crown Dependencies).  The globalist death cult is desperate to bring down world population by any means and the useful idiots of parliamentarians in Canada, England, Jersey and the Isle of Man have brought great pleasure to the likes of Gates, Schwab, Soros, Harari and Blair.

TOON TUESDAY #95

We begin again with the Israeli war on Iran, including Matt Pritchett's obsession with rising fuel prices.  The Telegraph artist spent the entire week referencing the disastrous effects the war is having on petrol forecourts.  And of course it wouldn't be a week in cartoons these days without a little bit of Mandy...

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